As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPERBecause computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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